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SUM Innovation Inc

The 98%
Problem

Blockchain infrastructure built for the people who think crypto is a scam.

Pre-Seed  ·  Infrastructure / Consumer Web3  ·  June 2026
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suminnovation.xyz  ·  sumail.xyz  ·  sumchain.io
The Problem

The Industry Burned the Trust.
We're Rebuilding It.

While crypto chased speculation, the compute and storage that AI runs on stayed locked behind a handful of clouds — opaque, extractive, and unsafe.

98%

of people surveyed across 150 coffee shops & venues associate blockchain with scams

OPAQUE

A Black Box You Rent

You can't see the model, the silicon, or what happens to your data. Closed weights behind an API, opaque pricing, throttling with no explanation — you can't even verify the computation you paid for.

RENT EXTRACTION

AGI Is a Subscription

A handful of clouds and model labs set the price of every GPU-hour. You rent intelligence at monopoly margins, pay egress to get your own data back, and never own the stack. AGI on rented servers isn't AGI — it's a subscription.

UNSAFE

Your Data Is Their Product

Prompts, files, and model weights live on someone else's servers — trained on, stored, and breachable. The workloads that matter most — health, legal, finance — can't safely go there at all.

The Insight

Math Doesn't Lie. The Industry Did.

WHAT CRYPTO BECAME

  • ✗Finance-first speculation. Often traded endlessly but used by nobody.
  • ✗Inaccessible to anyone without a terminal.
  • ✗People treat crypto as asset, not cash; Satoshi wrote peer-to-peer digital cash. The industry forgot.
  • ✗Justin Sun bought a banana duct-taped to a wall for $6.2M. Bored Apes went to zero. NFTs burned the last credibility crypto had.
  • ✗95% of UCLA non-tech students don't know what a terminal is.

WHAT SUM RESTORES

  • ✓Utility-backed, real-world anchored chain. Math is the trust, not people.
  • ✓Transparent — verifiable compute: prove what ran, on whose data, at what price.
  • ✓No middlemen — an open market for GPUs and storage, priced by supply, not a cartel.
  • ✓Safe by design — encrypted, distributed storage with no central server to breach.
  • ✓Trustless compute, storage, and contributor rewards — together on SUM Chain (OmniNode, SNIP).
"Blockchain asks people to trust math, not people." — Satoshi's original promise.
Why Now

The Window Is Open. It Won't Stay Open.

Centralized Storage Keeps Failing

MOVEit, National Public Data — centralized stores are failing at scale, with 1.7 billion records exposed in 2024 alone. One server, one breach, no recovery path.

AI Compute Demand Is Exploding

Models keep getting bigger and GPUs are the bottleneck — the centralized cloud can't keep up, and the workloads that need privacy can't run there at all.

Compute Is an Oligopoly

A few hyperscalers and one chipmaker control the supply and the price of compute. Startups, researchers, and anyone without a cloud contract get gated out.

DePIN Investment Is Surging

Decentralized physical infrastructure — compute, storage, GPUs — is the hottest category in crypto. a16z Crypto closed a $2.2B fund aimed at turning exactly this kind of infrastructure into everyday products.

The Solution

We Built the Full Stack.
Every Layer. From Scratch.

RUMUS

DEV: Consumer

SYMVASI

SMART CONTRACT

SUMail

CONSUMER

OmniNode

COMPUTE
+ RUMUS

SUM Chain

ENGINE

SNIP

STORAGE
OmniNode Demo: click here
Demos saved on SNIP — decentralized, verifiable & permanent.
Product · Inference

Decentralized Inference, End to End

NODE DIAGRAM
flowchart TB
  user["END USER"]
  chain["SUM CHAIN<br/>typed-tx dispatch · zkML verify · settlement"]
  subgraph mesh[INFERENCE NODE MESH]
    direction LR
    nodeA["Node A<br/>layers 1..N"]
    nodeB["Node B<br/>layers N+1..M"]
    nodeA <-->|"4 · pipeline-parallel inference"| nodeB
  end
  archive["ARCHIVE NODES · SNIP<br/>model weights chunked · PoR-backed"]
  user -->|"1 · prompt + Koppa fee"| chain
  chain -->|"2 · dispatch<br/>job"| mesh
  mesh -->|"3 · fetch model shards (GGUF) over SNIP"| archive
  archive -.->|"shards"| mesh
  mesh -->|"5 · response<br/>+ zkProof"| chain
  chain -->|"6 · response delivered"| user
SEQUENCE DIAGRAM
sequenceDiagram
  participant U as End User
  participant C as SUM Chain
  participant I as Inference Nodes
  participant A as Archive · SNIP
  U->>C: 1 · prompt + Koppa fee
  C->>I: 2 · dispatch job
  I->>A: 3 · fetch model shards (GGUF)
  A-->>I: shards
  I-->>I: 4 · pipeline-parallel inference
  I->>C: 5 · response + zkML proof
  Note over C: chain verifies
  C->>U: 6 · deliver response
Traction

Shipped 4 Production Products
in 5 Months. No Shortcuts.

Nov 20
2025
SUM Chain
LIVE
Dec 13
2025
SUMail
LIVE
Mar 15
2026
OmniNode
LIVE
Apr 16
2026
SNIP
LIVE
4
Products shipped
< 5 mo
Time to full ecosystem
32
UCLA students tested
100%
Code reviewed in-house
Market & Competition

Massive Markets. No One Has Built the Full Stack.

Decentralized AI Compute

$900B+ TAM $73-100B SAM $400M SOM
Render Network — GPU rendering only. No storage, no identity, no consumer layer.
Akash — General compute marketplace. No AI-specific orchestration, no credential system.

Decentralized Storage

$150B+ TAM $3.6B SAM $180M SOM
Filecoin — Storage deals only. No identity, no compute, poor consumer UX.
Arweave — Permanent storage. No credentials, no compute, no application layer.

Web3 Consumer Apps

$30-50B TAM $17.9B SAM $120M SOM
Bittensor — Incentivized AI model network. No storage, no identity, no consumer product.
Ceramic — Decentralized data model. No storage network, no compute, no consumer product.

Every competitor solves one piece. SUM is the only full-stack — identity, storage, compute, and consumer apps — unified on one chain, accessed through one identity.

Tokenization & Revenue Model

One Token. Utility-Backed. Not Speculation.

Institutions

Pay for compute and storage capacity. Flat, predictable, auditable.

DRIVES ADOPTION

Individuals

Developers, researchers, and startups tap compute and storage free or at reduced cost.

Decentralized Storage

SNIP

Clients pay per GB to store and retrieve tamper-proof data on SNIP's decentralized network.

Parallelized Compute

OmniNode

OmniNode takes a protocol fee on AI inference jobs routed through the network.

On-Chain Settlement

SUM Chain

Every inference job settles on SUM Chain with a Koppa fee and a zkML proof — the token is the unit of account for compute and storage.

Team

The Only Team That Can Build This.
Here's Why.

Leonard

Leonard

CEO · AI · Blockchain · Systems

RUMUS — Rust-native deep learning framework, 150+ GitHub stars. OmniNode — Top 5 Global, AI Tinkerers LA. UCLA Math/CS. Alpha Speedrun: 100% coding assessment.

Michael

Michael

COO · Infra · Platform · Security

NASA lunar mission telemetry published in SPIE. DARPA-backed AML subgraph matching engine in C++. Architected SNIP from zero. Shipped SUMaillet to Chrome Web Store.

Caleb

Caleb

CPO · Math · Product · Analytics

Univ. of Delaware Applied Math PhD candidate. Proved OmniNode model-sharding architecture. Shipped Graduate Journey — live product for underserved first-gen and international students.

Shayan

Shayan

CSO · Statistics · Networks · Go-To-Market

Columbia University MA Statistics. Validated mathematical foundations across SUM protocols. Columbia alumni network as GTM leverage.

Academic Advisors

Prof. Andrea Bertozzi (UCLA) · Prof. Paolo Climaco (UCLA) — Co-directed Leonard & Michael's graph-matching research (signed MATH 199). Foundational to SUM Chain consensus layer.

SUM Innovation Inc

$2M to Take SUM From
Internal Ecosystem to Market.

What we're raising and what we need beyond capital:

$1M
50%
Infrastructure & Engineering

Validators and Archive Nodes to secure SUM Chain and serve SNIP at scale; core engineering to harden every layer.

$300K
15%
GTM

Recruit and onboard GPU and storage node operators to the mesh; developer programs and incentives to win early AI builders.

$250K
12.5%
Business & Marketing

Marketing and sales experts to form GTM, build pipeline, and reach institutions.

$200K
10%
Legal & Patents

Patent filings across SUM Chain, SNIP, OmniNode, SUMail — plus IP and corporate counsel.

$250K
12.5%
Runway Buffer

Multi-month operating stability through the next milestone.

Beyond capital, we need: Expert GTM operators · Partnership intros · Recruiting pipeline · Demo Day distribution · Network access
SUM
SUM Innovation Inc

Get In Touch.

Reach us the old way — or prove you've been paying attention and use ours w/ credentials admin@suminnovation.xyz ["UqU4870Tz3OC!"]

Leonard — CEO
leo@suminnovation.xyz
SUM Chain: EoK8yhHUpKfybhb1K59C9KDT6BibTDyPP
suminnovation.xyz · sumail.xyz · sumchain.io
Michael — COO
michael@suminnovation.xyz
SUM Chain: MMwxCo6U35xubBLi6N3ouktKiT7FM2gFE
suminnovation.xyz · sumail.xyz · sumchain.io
Caleb — CPO
Khalebean@suminnovation.xyz
SUM Chain: 2Ehi3aBAtV2bSoN1pPNDbxBKsFSxWrrDQ
suminnovation.xyz · sumail.xyz · sumchain.io
Shayan — CSO
shayan@suminnovation.xyz
SUM Chain: 4PanYCkhwtJvMxm2mJyzqyqmq9q9bDEtQ
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